You can lastly delete your Threads profile with out deleting your Instagram account.
It is now lastly attainable to independently delete your Meta Threads profile with out affecting your Instagram account. Here’s the way you do it.
Meta’s Threads is steadily shaping as much as be a critical competitor to Elon Musk’s X (previously Twitter) and is beginning to add a number of options that have been lacking on launch, like with the ability to edit posts, and solely lately, it has additionally added the power to delete one’s Threads profile independently with out deleting their Instagram account. Yes, till now, it was unattainable so that you can delete your Threads profile except you deleted your Instagram account.
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri took to Threads to disclose this rollout, alongside one other characteristic which helps you to flip off publish options from exhibiting up on Meta’s different platforms like Instagram or Facebook.
“We’re rolling out a way for you to delete your Threads profile separately from your Instagram account,” Mosseri introduced on Threads. And now, if you wish to delete your Threads profile, all you might want to do is—go to Settings, then head to ‘Account,’ go to ‘Delete or Deactivate Profile,’ after which lastly choose delete.
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In the screenshot shared by Mosseri, we are able to see that deleting your profile is everlasting, and as soon as finished, all of your profile knowledge together with replies, posts, and media recordsdata shall be hidden, and after 30 days, completely deleted. And on the identical web page, Meta additionally notes that this deletion solely applies to the Threads profile, and that your Instagram account won’t be deleted or deactivated.
Meta has additionally made it attainable to disable the show of publish options on Meta’s different platforms, corresponding to Instagram and Facebook. This follows consumer dissatisfaction with Meta’s Threads integration, notably the ‘For You on Threads’ carousel in Instagram and Facebook feeds. To achieve this, open the Threads app and go to Privacy. You will then see ‘Suggesting posts’ with separate toggles for Instagram and Facebook. To flip off the carousel on both Facebook or Instagram, merely toggle the settings as desired.
